IB Philosophy Questions by Topic

Every IB Philosophy unit, from the core theme "Being human" and the optional themes to the twelve prescribed texts of the open-book Paper 2, with exam-style practice for stimulus essays and prescribed-text essays that model how to build AND evaluate an argument. Click any topic to start practising.

1,992Questions
43Topics
10Units

Unit 1: Core theme — Being human

395 questions
1.1

Identity

72
1.2

The self and the other

66
1.3

Consciousness

58
1.4

Personhood

62
1.5

Human nature

65
1.6

Freedom

72

Unit 2: Optional theme — Aesthetics

151 questions
2.1

The nature of art

55
2.2

The artist and the artistic process

51
2.3

Aesthetic experience and judgement

45

Unit 3: Optional theme — Epistemology

167 questions
3.1

Nature of knowledge

65
3.2

Problems of knowledge

52
3.3

Application of knowledge

50

Unit 4: Optional theme — Ethics

159 questions
4.1

Normative ethics

55
4.2

Meta-ethics

52
4.3

Applied ethics

52

Unit 5: Optional theme — Philosophy of religion

124 questions
5.1

Nature and existence of God

52
5.2

Religious language

36
5.3

Religious experience and behaviour

36

Unit 6: Optional theme — Philosophy of science

130 questions
6.1

Nature and methodologies of science

52
6.2

Science and the self

39
6.3

Science and society

39

Unit 7: Optional theme — Political philosophy

143 questions
7.1

The state

52
7.2

Justice

52
7.3

Liberty and rights

39

Unit 8: Optional theme — Social philosophy

130 questions
8.1

Social structures and institutions

39
8.2

Equality and discrimination

52
8.3

Gender

39

Unit 10: Prescribed texts (open-book Paper 2)

585 questions
10.1

Language, Truth and Logic — Ayer

44
10.2

The Analects — Confucius

44
10.3

Meditations on First Philosophy — Descartes

55
10.4

Black Skin, White Masks — Fanon

44
10.5

On the Genealogy of Morality — Nietzsche

55
10.6

Creating Capabilities — Nussbaum

44
10.7

The Revolt of the Masses — Ortega y Gasset

44
10.8

The Republic, Books IV–IX — Plato

60
10.9

The Ethics of Authenticity — Taylor

44
10.10

Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu

48
10.11

The Second Sex — de Beauvoir

55
10.12

On Liberty — Mill

48

Unit 11: Doing philosophy — exam skills

8 questions
11.1

Constructing arguments

2
11.2

Evaluating arguments

2
11.3

Command terms: Explain vs Discuss/Evaluate

2
11.4

Analysing the unseen stimulus (Paper 1 §A technique)

2

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